Well, could there be a better way to illustrate the true height of Silhouette Mountain than showing that Mega-X has still not made it to the top, after getting started on that near the end of Chapter 2?

And I don’t mean that you could calculate the height of the mountain from the time passed and the average speed of Mega-X (which isn’t even established). It’s deeper and more symbolic like that. The endless upward crawl of Mega-X clearly demonstrates that all incarnations of Silhouette Mountain, on all planets and in all eras, are in fact the same mountain…giving it a certain height, three times that height and nine times that height at the same time – because Silhouette Mountain is not a mountain. It is a state of mind. O_O;

Its height is not a physical dimension, it’s a psychological constant: it is too high. Depending on what you consider climbable, the incarnation of the mountain that you or your group encounters might be larger or smaller – the constant is just that it’s too f**king high to be scaled in anything like an acceptable amount of time!

Of course, Mopey is not aware of this reality, although she might have a hunch. But it doesn’t matter, since she approaches the problem from the other side – the mountain is too high, physically, psychologically, or in any way it prefers, and that makes trying to climb it impossible, also physically, psychologically, and so on.